*** 9 May 2007: Final Exam (11:00 a.m. – 12:50 p.m.) ***

Course Syllabus

Academic Dishonesty Policy

Lecture Notes

PHP

• 30 April 2007
  • PHP Bible – Chapter 9: Arrays and Array Functions
• 18 April 2007
  • PHP Bible – Chapter 6: Control & Functions
  • PHP Bible – Chapter 8: Strings
• 13 April 2007
  • PHP Bible – Chapter 6: Control & Functions
• 11 April 2007
  • PHP Bible – Chapter 6: Control & Functions
• 9 April 2007
  • PHP Bible – Chapter 6: Control & Functions
• 6 April 2007
  • PHP Bible – Chapter 5: Syntax & Variables
• 4 April 2007
  • PHP Bible – Chapter 5: Syntax & Variables
• 2 April 2007
  • PHP Bible – Chapter 5: Syntax & Variables
• 30 March 2007
  • PHP Bible – Chapter 3: Getting Started with PHP
  • PHP Bible – Chapter 2: Server-Side Web Scripting?
  • PHP Bible – Chapter 4: Adding PHP to HTML
• 19 March 2007
  • PHP Bible – Chapter 1: Why PHP?
    • PHP Jobs
    • ASP Jobs
    • PHP Better than Java?
    • PHP Usage Stats

  Software Development

• 23 March 2007
  • History of Programming Languages
• 28 February 2007
  • Software Development Methodologies
• 26 February 2007
  • Software Development Methodologies
• 23 February 2007
  • Strategic Information Systems

  e-Commerce

• 21 February 2007
  • E-Service
  • Web Advertising and Web Publishing
    • Origin of Spam (aka Unsolicited Commercial Bulk E-mail - UCBE/UCE)
• 19 February 2007
  • Consumer-Oriented E-Commerce
  • Business-Oriented E-Commerce
  • E-Service
• 16 February 2007
  • Consumer-Oriented E-Commerce
• 14 February 2007
  • Basic cryptography for enabling e-commerce
  • Internet Security
  • Internet Payment Systems
• 12 February 2007
  • Basic cryptography for enabling e-commerce
• 7 February 2007
  • HTML Forms
    • Sample form
    • Sample form with verification
  • Basic cryptography for enabling e-commerce
• 5 February 2007
  • HTML Forms
    • Sample form
    • Sample form with verification
• 2 February 2007
  • HTML - Chapter 6: Tables
  • Sample table
• 31 January 2007
  • HTML - Chapter 3: Colors, Patterns, & Inline Graphics
  • HTML - Chapter 4: All About Hyperlinks
  • HTML - Chapter 5: Working with Images
• 29 January 2007
  • HTML - Chapter 2: Text Formatting
  • HTML - Chapter 3: Colors, Patterns, & Inline Graphics
• 24 January 2007
  • Client-Side Programming
• 22 January 2007
  • Internet and World Wide Web
  • Assignment 1 review
• 19 January 2007
  • Introduction
  • Internet and World Wide Web

Assignments

1. Due 23 Apr 07: Create a web page template and catalog page
2. Due 16 Feb 07: Create a Business Homepage
3. Due 22 Jan 07: Website Critique

Debates

Debate Format
Debate/Project Groups
• 2 March 2007: Agile Development Methodologies (Group 3) vs. Traditional Software Development Lifecycle/SDLC (Group 4)
  Articles (note: I do not endorse the wiki as a definitive, authoritative, or accurate source. However, it can provide a useful overview and starting point for researching a topic):
  • Wiki: The Waterfall Model
  • Wiki: The Software Development Life-Cycle
  • Wiki: Agile software development
  • The Agile Manifesto
  • Boehm, B. and Turner, R. 2004. Balancing Agility and Discipline: Evaluating and Integrating Agile and Plan-Driven Methods. In Proceedings of the 26th international Conference on Software Engineering (May 23 - 28, 2004). International Conference on Software Engineering. IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, 718-719.
  • Nerur, S., Mahapatra, R., and Mangalaraj, G. 2005. Challenges of migrating to agile methodologies. Communications of the ACM 48, 5 (May. 2005), 72-78.
  • Boehm, B. 2002. Get Ready for Agile Methods, with Care. Computer 35, 1 (Jan. 2002), 64-69.
  • Baskerville, R. and Pries-Heje, J. 2004. Short Cycle Time Systems Development. Info Systems Journal 14, 237-264.
  • Avison, David B.; and Fitzgerald, Guy, “Where Now for Development Methodologies?”, Communications of the ACM, January 2003, Vol. 46 (1), p78-82
• 28 March 2007: PHP (Group 1) vs. ASP (Group 4)
  Articles (note: I do not endorse the wiki as a definitive, authoritative, or accurate source. However, it can provide a useful overview and starting point for researching a topic):
  • Why PHP?
  • Why ASP?
  • Wiki: PHP
  • Wiki: ASP
  • 1997 - Guegen - IEEE Software - Formal methods: promises and problems
  • 1998 - Vajda - IEEE - The pros and cons of web programming
  • 2000 - Prechelt - IEEE computer - An empirical comparison of seven programming languages
  • 2001 - Gesker - Alternatives for dynamic web development projects
  • 2003 - Hawkins - Limp- An interpreted programming language for students, professors, and programmers
  • 2004 - Youssef - Visual C#.NET Introduction to programming languages
  • 2006 - Gibson - Website engineering in the real world

Projects

Exams & Quizzes

• 09 Feb 07: Quiz 1 Study Guide
• 05 Mar 07: Quiz 2 Study Guide
• 07 Mar 07: Mid-Term Exam
• 16 Apr 07: Quiz 3 Study Guide
• 9 May 2007: Final Exam (11:00 a.m. – 12:50 p.m.)

How to retrieve assignments submitted through the website

1. Logon to the class' webserver
2. Click on the Grades tab
3. Drill down to the assignment names
4. Click on the name of the assignment you want to retrieve
• There will be a link at the bottom of the evaluation page to the file that was uploaded.
• It may have a different name than the file that was uploaded, but it is the same file.

Download Microsoft Software

You can download many Microsoft applications while on campus from here.

If you are looking for Windows XP Pro SP2, click on the dropdown menu and scroll to the very bottom of the list.

You will need to have CD creation software installed on your computer and a CD burner in order to create a CD from these images downloaded from the MSDN website.

Note: You WILL need to write down the serial number of the software when you download it in order to be able to use it...

Form processing test script

<FORM ACTION="http://siu.globaleyes.com/TestForm.php" NAME="MyForm"
    ID="MyForm" method="post">

File Downloads

• HTML

  • HTML 4.0 Specification (html40.pdf)
  • Color Chart
  • (wai-pageauth.pdf)
  • Apache for Windows installation (apache_2.0.43-win32-x86-no_ssl.msi)

• JavaScript

  • Client-Side JavaScript Guide version 1.3 (Javascript13ClientGuide.pdf)
  • Client-Side JavaScript Reference version 1.3 (ClientReferenceJS13.pdf)
  • W3C Document Object Model 1 (DOM.pdf)
  • DOM Object Cross-Reference
  • ECMAScript Components Specification (Ecma-290.pdf)
  • ECMAScript Language Specification (Ecma-262.pdf)
  • JavaScript Bible chapter 13 - JavaScript Essentials (jsbible13.pdf)
  • JavaScript Bible chapter 18 - Image and Area Objects (jsbible18.pdf)
  • JavaScript Bible chapter 37 - Data Entry Validation (jsbible37.pdf)
  • JavaScript Bible chapter 41 - Scripting Cross-Platform DHTML (jsbible41.pdf)
  • JavaScript Bible chapter 42 - Netscape DHTML and JavaScript Extensions (jsbible42.pdf)

• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

  • WebWizard's CSS Quick Reference
  • Cascading Style Sheets, level 1
  • WebReview.com: Style Sheet Reference Guide Master Grid
  • CSS Reference Index
  • Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 (pdf)
  • (cascade.zip)

• Dynamic HTML (DHTML)

  • Dynamic HTML overview
  • Dynamic HTML standard Events
  • Dynamic HTML standard Methods
  • Dynamic HTML standard properties
  • Data Binding
  • Visual Filters
  • Document Object Model (DOM.pdf)

• PHP

  • HTML Manual
  • Manual (php_manual_en.pdf)
  • Zend Development Environment
  • Windows Installer (php-4.3.0-installer.exe)
  • Supplementary Files (php-4.3.0-Win32.zip)
  • Zend Optimizer (ZendOptimizer-2.0.3-Windows-i386.exe)

• MySQL

  • Manual (Manual.pdf)
  • Windows Installation (mysql-max-3.23.52-win.zip)

• Perl

  • ActivePerl Windows Installation (ActivePerl-5.6.1.633-MSWin32-x86.msi)

• Tools

  • Putty
  • HomeSite Trial (HomeSite_5_Trial_Installer.exe)
  • FileZilla 2.2.18
  • Ulead SmartSaver Pro (Ussp30to.exe)
  • Live Image - Image mapping (LiveImg129Complete.exe)
    • UserName: Andrew Aken
      Reg. Key: 52550203-60644-1275
  • PaintShop Pro 7.04 (31 MB)
    • PaintShop Pro Tour (16 MB)
    • PaintShop Pro Getting Started Guide (6 MB)
    • PaintShop Pro Guide
  • bzip2 (bzip2.exe)
  • WinZip 8.1 (winzip81.exe)
  • Netscape 7.01 (Netscape701.exe)

Links

• The Degree-Oriented Guide to Skills in Information Technology (DOGS-IT)

• PHP Official Website

  • HTML & PHP Editors

• MySQL Official Website

• World-Wide Web Consortium

• ActiveState Perl for Windows

• Miscellaneous Links

• Nightline & CareerBuilder: Where are the jobs in 2009?